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Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 17: Attempt of the Education Department to lure students towards the government schools in Jammu and Kashmir can end up in a fiasco due to lack of facilities in these institutions.
The department is claiming that many people are shifting their children from private institutions to the government schools.
The Education Department is claiming that it expects over one lakh new admissions in the government schools in Jammu and Kashmir. However, what could possibly prick the balloon in the entire chain of claims is the fact that the department has taken meagre measures to ensure that basic facilities are made available in the government run schools.
In majority of the government sponsored schools, drinking water, government building or compound walling is missing. Such figures while unmasking the tall claims of the state authorities over ensuring betterment in state’s education sector have once again proved how Jammu schools are being neglected and forgotten.
Children in these schools are being denied quality education, hence bellying the claims of advanced system of learning and teaching.
Furthermore, Jammu region has 762 schools without the library facility available for children. At a time when the government claims of ensuring betterment in sports infrastructure in schools, asking children to actively take part in extra co-curricular activities, there are more than five thousand schools in Jammu region of the state have no play grounds. One hundred and five schools in the region are functioning without headmasters or principals. Nearly 1257 schools in Jammu have no subject teachers.
And finally, there are 683 schools in J&K which have recorded less than 30 percent of the result. Out of these 683 schools, 476 which are around 70 percent in total, are in Jammu region.
“Several times such an issue has come to fore but there are unknown reasons why government is acting as a mute spectator or it is not acting at all,” said a senior official in Education Department.
Besides the departmental survey, a study done by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has also revealed that nearly 80 percent of the schools in the JK are without electricity connections. Little so far has been done to put lid over such crises and while the government was ought to take remedial measures sans any delay, it is raising concern over why the department isn’t functioning in a digital mode.
Now, what could act as a litmus test of the performance of the Education Department is whether it could succeed in rectifying its past wrongs or would keep ostriching over the prevailing scenario. |
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